[0.17 Stock] Two fighter jets: K-15 and K-16

[iamaphazael]

So I've been playing around with making planes that resemble real life models, and these are a couple of designs I had been working on before, and just dusted off and rebuilt in .17. I present to you the K-15 and K-16!

I'm pretty happy with the way they came out. Like their real-world counterparts, the 16 is a faster and a little more agile, but also a bit, shall we say, squirrelier. The 15 is also a little more robust. It can land going 60+ m/s and with the nose basically on the horizon, but the 16 needs a little more finesse to bring it down in one piece

There's a little more mass thats not engines or fuel on here than I usually care for, but I think it looks pretty sexy. I experimented with replacing the nacelles with a pair of fuel tanks, to give it better range (the "e" model, of course), but I couldn't find a good place to add the extra lift and control authority it needed to get off the ground. Any change I made either made it look stupid or made the asas freak out. So here ya go. Looks like test pilot Kirk really enjoys it:

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More like a gas tank with wings. It's got nothing that's not needed, and is probably missing a few things that are needed. At least you can see out of this one.

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Edited September 27, 2012 by iamaphazael

[Duffman3005]

Wow, I love how close they are to the original, great job!

[iamaphazael]

Thanks! I think I'm going to tackle the KA-18 next. I'm thinking I might need to move away from stock for that and use a bicoupler.